Tag: students

This past fall, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) released a second State of the American Student, a report that provides basic data on U.S. students’ progress toward academic recovery and mental wellness, as well as indicators of the overall health of the system, including data on teachers, enrollment, and finances. Yesterday we focused…

As we start a new year, it might be a good idea to figure out where we are when it comes to offering our young learners an effective and efficient learning system. This past fall, the Center on Reinventing Public Education released a second State of the American Student, a report that provides basic data…

Getting Smart, a Washington State – based think tank committed to young learners, released “A Portrait” school improvement model a few weeks ago. According to Getting Smart, this new model will help schools and school districts build coherence in school and system redesign. The Getting Smart authors begin by writing, “A ‘Portrait’ framework helps leaders…

I usually stray away from writing about school shootings. It seems to me that, as a country, we aren’t dissatisfied enough with seeing our little ones shot and killed in a place built for learning. It seems that we are more committed to gun rights these days than protecting our young learners. I was thinking…

My friend Dr. Lawrence Kohn, partner at Leadership Partners LLC, recently wrote an article titled “Why are They Wearing Lead Parachutes? It’s Not Their Fault.” In the article, Kohn refers to “Personal Leadership Resources,” seven traits that help school leaders provide “functional parachutes” for their teachers and staff instead of toxic “lead parachutes” that will…

ABPTL is back! Happy New Year! Before the holidays my friend Dr. Lawrence Kohn, partner at Leadership Partners, LLC, posted an article titled “Why are They Wearing Lead Parachutes? It’s Not Their Fault.” In the article, Dr. Kohn writes, … “We all know the metaphor, ‘lead parachute.’ A ‘lead parachute’ is not a practical or…

Last week The 74 online published an article focusing on 14 ideas that changed the way we looked at our schools this year. Let’s take a look at some of these ideas through the writing of The 74’s Kevin Mahnken: “Student absenteeism is out of control – You could spend a lot of time simply…

Today we recognize the release of a U.S. Department of Education report titled “A Nation At Risk” forty years ago. Last week, The 74 online published a retrospective that highlighted a recent Hoover Institution report detailing the breadth of the reform efforts the landmark report inspired. The 74 writes, “Forty years ago, the release of…